How to fix the Oracle error ORA-14098: index mismatch for tables in ALTER TABLE EXCHANGE PARTITION?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-14098: index mismatch for tables in ALTER TABLE EXCHANGE PARTITION with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-14098: index mismatch for tables in ALTER TABLE EXCHANGE PARTITION

Reason for the Error ORA-14098: index mismatch for tables in ALTER TABLE EXCHANGE PARTITION

The two tables specified in the EXCHANGE have indexes which are not equivalent

How to fix the Error ORA-14098: index mismatch for tables in ALTER TABLE EXCHANGE PARTITION ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Ensure that the indexes for the two tables have indexes which follow this rule For every non partitioned index for the non partitioned table, there has to be an identical LOCAL index on the partitioned table and vice versa. By identical, the column position, type and size have to be the same.